It contains 11 optical elements in 8 groups and 7 rounbded diephgram blades. The lens is also equipped with a Silent Vawe Motor, which provides smooth and quiet auto-focus, and a minimum focus to distance of 25cm. This attitude makes the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5/6G VR II sort of digital magnifying glass. When you are using this lens to image some small insect or elements you can easily magnify the size. Basically this little lens allow you to magnify the image exactly 2.7x, although once you crop the picture you can receive much more higher magnification. This small operation relies on adjustment the whole picture into your specific shape, showing your object desired. The only downside is the output image may be a little bit noisy, especially when the original picture has been taken in the bad light. Remember! All pictures need do be done in full size!

The AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5/6G VR II is an excellent starter lens for casual photographers and other shooters, who are buying their first DSLR like me. It’s sharp throughout its zoom range, but it does exhibit a good deal of distorsion at its widest angle. The best option is to get this lens bundled with a new camera. This lens makes a really good photos, however it has some issues, like chromatic aberration, typical seen as blue or purple fringes along contrasty edges (read about it more here) and light fall-of, which probably is much more annoying. Light fall-off defect appears, when AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5/6G VR II is wide open, then you can see diminished luminance in the corners and along the frame edges (pic.35-36). When you are taking photos with 55mm you need also remember, that sharpness is worse on the edges (see pictures above).

The last thing to mention is the bokeh. Bokeh is an aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out of focus part of the image produced by lens. Bokeh may be considerated like the way to renders out-of-focus point of lights. Bokeh is more often visible around small background higlights. One of the most important thing in Bokeh is a depth of field. You can adjust your out-of-focus region to be more prominent using a shallow-focus technique (pic.38).

Pic.38 The Bokeh with a shallow-focus technique with small depth of field. One plane of the image is in focus while the rest is out of focus. The man with elephant is in focus, a river bank and house is quite prominent and out-of-focus, Khao river, Khao Sok National Park, Thailand.

I can strong recommend the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5/6G VR II for people who like to do nature-watching and capture a small wildlife. Due to the -S DX Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5/6G VR II facilities you will be able to magnify your desired object.